The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-03-10
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and lime yet there is no uncomfortable good clay the
State for most of the clay industries and The best
clay that have yet found that is the largest deposit Of the
best clay in Escamba county, six miles east of Pensacola
the line Of p A. R. R. But have visited no county
yet in which have found clay that will make passa
bly, good brick when properly handled The presence of
much lime and of sand is the great drawback how
The former will the clay to run in burn
ing while the latter the brick to be soft or disposed
to crumble.
have found stratum of kaolin of pretty white ap
peaance and at greatly variable depth of deposit from
very thin layer to depth of several feet be often met
with in divers parts of the State need not the To-
caltes, they very But here is great
liability for casual observer or in some
pert to be deceived There quite variety of fine white
deposits which greatly alike in appearance. very
white deposit is found which consists Of exceed
ingly fine silt powder of marine shells. Again, white
clay may have lime material of almost exactly like appear
ance most intimately commingled, and in all proportions
Magnesa occasionally found in fine POWDER and
times, though less commonly, present in white clay
beautiful black clay Of great fneness and another red
of like texture and still others Of mixed colooten mot
tied of red white and purple black colo of great deli
cacy caco-clays y found at the Kehoe brick yards,
of Pensacola Similar calico cays" be in
lower beds of clay deposits all Florida and adjoining
States but nowhere have found it fine the above
named localities may remark that the black clay burns
red while the red is whened in burning Cays sufficiently
fine and pure for pottery to be various points, in
lower strata where varieties Such have
found in the counties have visited But in many
instances have found it in but small deposits
must confess wtha that have found the clays suited
for the best BRICK in comparatively instances, in su
cient quantity for extensive works.
Deposits of iron exist in many localities of Florida but
the quantity thereof yet problem 1t is out of the ques
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the work undertaken, should determine question
which requires much labor in excavating drilling for
solution Whether therefore iron exists in paying quant
ties it yet to be determined But locality in Jackson
county lately visited has seemingly rather extensive de-
post Indeed several places in this county probably
alike full of promise of practical results.
The iron of Florida, far known to me- is of the
monite variety 1t is the best iron ore. 1t is the
kind often called the kidney But when this of good
grade is still of great value in localities where the
better classes of iron absent, and gatifed
that Florida may be entirely overshadowed by the
wonderful deposit possessed by next neighbor
One of the most notable physical facts of State is the
universally of the presence of iron in form and
binaton. Nearly all cays more less stained by
oxyds of ron from the ghest yellow the deepest red
brown and black. large proportion of the running
of wells and springs of the chabeate character
in springs and wells these commonly called sulphur
casoned by chemical action. The clays greatly liable
to be full of nodules and grains, composed of this
metal combined with sand and clay All these nodues and
grains of peroxyd of ron with the associated other
materials
The presence of coal in the deposits of our State has
long been problem, and perhaps other question has
been frequently put during the brief time of the present
work. this have You found coal % 1t has been very de-
about, and length it has Coal is present Of
only be expected to be OF the soft brown or
Ignite variety None other would probably exist in any
tertiary deposit.
In the very last made before the going
printer of this first report found vein Of coal in Santa
Rosa county, located at distance of less than mile
north of Milton and the west bank of the Blackwaer
river The entire thickness of this vein about 80 inches
but the upper surface percoated by clay extent
which damages it somewhat
But for the fact that most persons would expect to find
coal to appear cubic forms at least somewhat solid
it very certain that this deposit would have been dis
covered earlier by the citizens who doubtless have noticed
the black belt extending all along either side of deep
cent excavation of considerable extent into the bluff
The texture of tertiary coal not known doubtless and
so the problem of coal in Florida escaped solution for
longer time than would else have been the case No
would have supposed that the heavy trains of the
Pacific R. r. were propelled the Rocky Mountains
with just such coal as this.
But the discovery above has yet alone been made No
one knows how much coal there is in this deposit
whether there other deposits Nevertheless may in
dulge fair prospect The coal is found, and tertiary
coal exists various other localities, and in inconsder
able quantity may be here in Florida The outcrop
of this deposit along both margins of this guch is 10 to
10 rods and the vein is horizontal probably extends
considerable distance and breadth The depth Of the vein
below the surface only about feet 1t lies high
above water level OF the river
Doubtless other deposits of coal will now be found
BUILDING STONE.